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The Hanna Town Council met at 6:30 p.m. on December 8 at the Hanna Town Hall for their regularly scheduled meeting. Council members Jayson Nordquist, Sam Sikes and Mayor Lois Buchanan were present in person and council member Linda Schisel was in attendance by phone. Councilmember Tracy Fowler was absent. Buchanan started with the High Country Joint Powers Board (see Hanna Landfill Closed on page 1 of the December 9 Saratoga Sun). She informed the council that the landfill...
The Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) met on December 2 at the Platte Valley Community Center to discuss ongoing matters involving the landfill. After site reports and discussion of ongoing billing issues, the board met with Mayor Pro-Tem Bob Keel to address the James Childress report. The report was criticized in the town council meeting the day before, and this trend continued to the landfill board meeting. Keel started by discussing Childress’s o...
During their final meeting of 2020, the Saratoga Planning Commission discussed a variety of topics ranging from the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Town of Saratoga and Carbon County to the final authority of special use permits. Three of the four current members of the planning commission were in attendance on December 8 and, even while addressing continued concerns from Ellie Dana-Raymer regarding the new Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) clinic, the...
When the Saratoga Planning Commission meets in January, it will be unclear as to how many members the advisory board will have. While, according to Saratoga Municipal Code, the planning commission should be composed of seven members, it has struggled to retain that number and has even, at times, struggled to maintain a quorum according to its own bylaws. During the December 8 meeting of the Saratoga Planning Commission, Commissioner Tom Westring reminded the few in attendance...
As various sections of municipal infrastructure age and need to be replaced, the Saratoga-Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (SCCIJPB) is looking everywhere for potential revenue sources. One of those sources is the money owed to the Town of Saratoga from delinquent water and sewer users. During their December 9 meeting, the SCCIJPB discussed the delinquent accounts—some only 60 days past due and others more than three years in arrears—and how best to collect on them. On...
After nearly 30 years working for the Town of Saratoga, Suzie Cox submitted her letter of resignation to the Saratoga Town Council effective December 31. Cox, who has served as town clerk since 2005 and was initially hired in 1994, submitted her letter prior to the December 1 meeting of the governing body. “It has been my pleasure to have served in many capacities and as Clerk for the Town of Saratoga. I have worked for the Town of Saratoga since November of 1994,” wrote Cox...
With only one meeting remaining in 2020, it would appear that the Saratoga Town Council will move into the New Year without someone in the mayor’s seat despite solicited input from council members-elect Creed James and Ben Spaulding. While the two provided their opinion on the vacancy, two different motions to appoint to the seat died due to lack of a second. Though the mayoral vacancy has been discussed repeatedly since the initial resignation of Mayor John Zeiger on A...
“After the investigation and reading the documentation … it’s the finding of my office that there is no criminal conduct. So, we have declined criminal charges.” It has been more than a year since the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office seized a hard drive used by Saratoga Town Clerk Suzie Cox from Saratoga Town Hall. On December 1, Carbon County Attorney Ashley Mayfield-Davis appeared before the Saratoga Town Council to inform them that the investigation into the hard drive was...
The Carbon County Visitors Council had to change their meeting from Sinclair Town Hall to meet virtually due to concerns of COVID-19. The meeting started at 10:31 on November 18. The agenda and minutes from the regularly scheduled meeting on October 10 were quickly approved. The next order of business was going over and approving the 2021 Budget Amendment that incorporated $270,428.06 of Cares Act Relief Funding (CARF) received for the purpose of marketing and promoting...
The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) met at 6:30 p.m by Zoom on November 18. The municipalities represented were Baggs, Dixon, Elk Mountain, Rawlins, Riverside and Saratoga. Chairman Morgan Irene started the meeting by having all in the conference introduce themselves. After introductions, the voting members from the municipalities identified themselves. Once the voting members identified themselves, the council approved the agenda and the minutes from the...
Saratoga’s mayoral vacancy is no closer to being filled, despite council members-elect Ben Spaulding and Creed James being given two weeks to meet with sitting members of Saratoga Town Council. While Saratoga’s governing body was supposed to meet on November 17, and potentially appoint someone as mayor, the meeting ended up being canceled due to lack of a quorum. The announcement of the cancellation came at approximately noon the day of the meeting in an email from Sar...
The Medicine Bow Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Monday at the Medicine Bow Community Hall for their regularly scheduled town council meeting. Mayor Sharon Biamon was in attendance along with council members John Cowdin, Trevor Flansburg and Trevor Strauch. Council member Lucy Schofield was absent. The agenda was approved in the opening minutes of the council meeting followed quickly by the minutes from the October 12 regular meeting. Treasurer/Town Clerk Karen Heath went over...
The Hanna Town Council met at 6:30 p.m. on November 10 at the Hanna Town Hall. Due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) starting to show up in the resident population, the town limited seating to 10 audience members. Masks were required for all who came to the meeting. The mayor and council members Traci Fowler and Sammy Sikes were physically present and Linda Schisel was on the telephone. Bob Patton's seat was soon to be filled. The approval of the agenda and minutes was done in a...
The Hanna Parks and Recreation Board met on Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Hanna Recreation Center. The agenda and minutes from the August 5 regularly scheduled meeting were approved quickly. There was no quorum for the September meeting. All financials for August, September and October were approved. The board met with John Klemola, who submitted an application for the open board seat. The board approved his application and will put it forth to the Hanna Town Council at their...
The question of who will be appointed to the vacant mayoral position on the Saratoga Town Council remains unanswered following the rescheduled November 4 meeting. With six meetings having elapsed since the resignation of former mayor John Zeiger and three meetings remaining until the end of the calendar year, continued discussion and the potential appointment have been pushed back until the November 17 meeting of the governing body. As was reported previously (see “Saratoga p...
On October 28 the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) held a special meeting with Saratoga mayor pro-tem Bob Keel to discuss the fund balance previously held by the town. This meeting was originally going to be held after the November 4 town council meeting, but was moved up in order to ensure there was a recording of the district’s concerns if a mayor were to be chosen after the election. Randy Raymer called the meeting to order, then allowed Keel to p...
The Saratoga Town Council may consider putting a cap on building permit fees in the future. This comes following a request from the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP), represented by Sonja Collamer, to waive or reduce a building fee for the North Platte Valley Medical Center (NPVMC) during the November 4 meeting of the governing body. That request also comes at a time when the PVHP recently announced a fundraiser for an additional $1 million for the critical access...
While other states are still counting votes days after November 3, the results in Carbon County were finalized on November 4. With more than 100 percent turnout, Carbon County Clerk Gwynn Bartlett said that, while it wasn’t a record turnout, it was a great turnout for the county. In Saratoga, voters overwhelmingly approved the formation of the Saratoga-Ryan Park Museum District while, in Medicine Bow, enough write-in candidates accepted their ballot nominations to ensure a q...
Inserted in this week’s Saratoga Sun, and available on the Saratoga Sun website, are unofficial election results. This is a service that we have provided to our readers for, at least, the past three election cycles. This year, however, I want to stress the use of the word “unofficial.” Here in Carbon County, and in the state of Wyoming, we are rather lucky when it comes to our unofficial results on election night. With polls closing at 7 p.m., results are often avail...
Property owned by Randy Stevens was a point of discussion for the Saratoga Town Council during the October 20 meeting and centered around a recently installed highway access. The property, which sits along East Maple Avenue between Highway 130 and South River Street, has long been a point of contention and litigation between Stevens and the Town of Saratoga. “A little background on this, Quality Landscape applied for and was granted a permit by the Department of T...
Finances continue to be a main talking point for the Town of Saratoga’s governing body. During the October 20 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council, Councilmember Jon Nelson expressed concern about the council not being presented with documentation in regards to transfers between fund types and transfers being made without explicit council approval. “I know I’ve harped on this, but we’re still not seeing documentation of the monies that are being moved between fund types,...
A proposed ordinance to Saratoga Municipal Code failed first reading during the October 20 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council. Ordinance No. 858, unofficially dubbed the “Pesto Festo Ordinance”, was presented by Councilmember Jon Nelson and would have amended code regulating specially permitted events. As was reported previously (see “Eventful changes for Saratoga” on page 2 of the September 23 Saratoga Sun), the intent by Nelson to amend the code came about followi...
The Saratoga Planning Commission conducted business with three of their four members in attendance on October 13. While member Tom Westring was unable to attend, Mike Lamprecht joined the meeting via phone as the commission discussed a zoning amendment for Copperline Lodge. Since opening four years ago on Rochester Street, the Copperline Lodge has operated in RD 6000. As owner Dan Point prepares to undergo expansion of his property, he is going through the rezoning process to...
While the Town of Saratoga has been moving forward without a planning and zoning director, members of the Saratoga Town Council have been reviewing and approving building permits. Another aspect of that position, however, is performing building inspections and pressure checks. At the October 13 meeting of the Saratoga Planning Commission, Councilmember D’Ron Campbell introduced Andrew Meyers, who has been contracted by the Town of Saratoga to perform building inspections. F...
The vacant mayor position, a divisive council and the need for a planning and zoning director were the major points of discussion for the four Saratoga Town Council candidates during a forum held on October 12 at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC). The forum, held in the Great Hall of the PVCC, was hosted by the Valley Service Organization (VSO) and livestreamed on Facebook by the Saratoga Sun. Tasha Worthington, Ben Spaulding, Danny Burau and Creed James spent...